[Bese-devel] Re: Bug in arnesi parse-float

[Eugene Tyurin]

That's what I've done already. :-)

Actually, parsing and controlling user input is a bitch every time.  
That's why the standard discusses *read-default-float-format* and whole 
slew of other goodies.  For example, depending on your locale (US vs. 
Europe) string "1,200" could have two totally different meanings. ;-(

Peace,
--ET.

On Feb 6, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Marco Baringer wrote:

> Eugene Tyurin <etyurin at comcast.net> writes:
>
>> Which makes me think - why does arnesi need parse-float - why not use
>> read-from-string?
>
> parse-float wa supposed to be faster, too bad it's so hard to make it
> correct. ok, would it be easier if i simply removed parse-float or if
> parse-float was a simple wrapper around read-from-string (anybody
> other than me use the :radix keyword)?
>
> -- 
> -Marco
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